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Zitro 
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 Topic: Did you dig your favorite album at first listen?
Posted: September 25 2007 at 10:50 |
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Think of your fave album, post it, then vote about your first listen experience.
Did you like it, did it blow you away, did you actually hated it at first listen?
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sleeper
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 10:55 |
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Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element Part 1
I really liked it on first listen but it took 6 months(!) for it to really hit me as the astounding masterpiece of music that it is.
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Zitro
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 10:58 |
The Perfect Element 1? Stay away from reading my review on that  My fave I think is: Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison. I was intrigued, though the "autumn" and "summer" tracks kinda blew me away. The other would be "Led Zeppelin I", and it blew me away, but the album is not prog.
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sleeper
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 11:05 |
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Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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E-Dub
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 11:11 |
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Marillion's Brave didn't hit me right off the bat. Subsequent listens and really involving myself in both the disc and the live spectacle of the Brave Live 2002 DVD made me realize what a truly special and masterful disc Brave is.
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Asphalt
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 11:59 |
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Pink Floyd's The Wall produced an epiphany. The first - arguably - prog album I have listened to without knowing it was prog [I didn't know what prog was at the time].
Dream Theater's Scenes From A Memory left me in awe. I could not get a hold on myself for days afterwards.
More recent favourites were more like the growing type (I didn't really care for Pain of Salvation even after I had first heard Entropia).
However, for the sake of the ol' time ones, I went with the first option.
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Yorkie X
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 12:11 |
so much great stuff so little time.. if I don't "dig" something about it on first play I tend to move on these days, I mean its not really often that I don't detect something interesting first play ... the moment I hear death growls or power metal drumming going on and on I`m done listening ... I know what I look for good intelligent artistic expression if that's not there and it doesn't have to be prog I`m listening to it applies to all the music I love ... I`m done with it 
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el böthy
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 12:46 |
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In the court of ... I had never heard something remotly like it, so yeah, it really blew me away!!!
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ProgBagel
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 13:09 |
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Close to the Edge was a big step from my prog-metal roots. I liked it...but it had to grow.
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Logan
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 13:17 |
 Yorkie X wrote:
so much great stuff so little time.. if I don't "dig"
something about it on first play I tend to move on these days, I mean
its not really often that I don't detect something interesting first
play ... the moment I hear death growls or power metal drumming going
on and on I`m done listening ... I know what I look for good
intelligent artistic expression if that's not there and it doesn't
have to be prog I`m listening to it applies to all the music I love
... I`m done with it
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I feel much the same way... If something about the album doesn't grab me then I generally prefer to move on. It has to intrigue me at the least. I don't have a particular favourite album du jour, though there a few that I've been listening to a great deal over the last month. I'll choose Pascal Duffard's Dieu est Fou as I've given that a great deal of plays since I first heard it not that long ago. I was seriously impressed on first listen, and unlike some albums that start to wear a little thin quickly, I still think it's as wonderful as when I first heard it.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 13:20 |
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I've got so much stuff in my collection and am always adding new stuff. Kind of hard to really have a single favorite.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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ian picken
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 13:50 |
Fraewell to Kings i first thought was good but after 1 month of listens i really could not stop, i still now listen to it once a week, at least... 
Edited by ian picken - September 25 2007 at 13:51
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Darklord55
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 15:21 |
Ghost Reveries! The music blew me away. I had to get used to the growls, which was out of the box for me.  However, that has changed and now I am totally blown away. 
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Sckxyss
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 16:15 |
Mine is Hoyry-Kone's Huono Parturi. I listened to it 4 times in a row the day I got it.
I guess I kinda liked it...
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FranMuzak
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Joined: July 01 2007
Location: Mexico
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 16:37 |
E-Dub wrote:
Marillion's Brave didn't hit me right off the bat. Subsequent listens and really involving myself in both the disc and the live spectacle of the Brave Live 2002 DVD made me realize what a truly special and masterful disc Brave is.
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Something similar happen to me with that album. I had heard it a dozen times and i was liking it already but it wasn't the big deal yet, then Marillion came to Mexico on the Brave tour and performed the full album live. After that i had a new great perspective.
But ican't honestly say exactly which album is my VERY favorite now. Could be one of these which i enjoy equally: Marbles,Brave, In Absentia, The Sky Moves Sideways, The Wall, Animals, A Time Of Day, Second Life Syndrome, Night and some others. What i can say is that most of these albums took me a while to fully apreciate them. ( with the exception of SLS and In Absentia that blew me away from the 1st time)
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Dean
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 16:53 |
When I first read this topic I thought "Nah, I have too many albums that I like to have a favourite" But after an evening's musing I realise I actually do:
Back in the spring of 1973 an album was released that blew my socks off. I had seen the band perform the album in its entirety in the autumn of the previous year and to say this was an eagerly awaited day would be an understatement. I took a detour on my way to school and stood outside the record shop waiting for it to open with three pound-notes in my sticky hand, then frantically helped the store owner unpack the boxes of that week’s delivery so I could be the first person in our town to own a copy. I had to wait the whole day before I could get home to play it, but my friends and I spent most of the day at school just looking at the cover, reading the lyrics and studying the free posters and stickers that were included in the packaging, trying to summon the courage to ask the music teacher if she would let us play it at lunchtime (she didn’t). I read and re-read the lyrics on the bus home so that by the time I first played it I had practically memorised every word. I think it is hard to imagine quite the effect of hearing those heartbeats at the beginning for the first time: the snatches of conversation, the laughing, the cash machines, then the plane crash and the surge of the opening chord of Breathe… I loved every minute right through to the last heartbeat at the end, so much so I played it again, and again. Over the following 35 years I have played this album to death – literally, I’ve worn out two vinyl copies and the third is not looking too good, I’ve bought every anniversary re-issue and repackage release, I’ve got dozens of live versions and even the dub-reggae tribute album and still it sends shivers down my spine whenever I hear it.
(I just put the album on this evening as I was writing this and as it got to the opening chord of Breathe a Chinook helicopter flew over the roof of my house, the beat of its contra-rotating rotors rattling the windows as it passed!!... 'kin'ell!)
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darkmatter
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 17:22 |
My favorite progressive rock album is In Absentia, and when I first listened to it, I knew it was amazing and it was very special! 
Edited by darkmatter - September 25 2007 at 17:23
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Time Signature
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 17:24 |
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I can say I dug it from the moment we pressed play on tape. The album was "Somewhere in Time" by Iron Maiden. I know, it probably doesn't count as a progressive album, but that's the album that got me into metal, rock and proggy music, and it's still my favorite album.
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Dim
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 17:56 |
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With most prog albums, it will take some time to sink in. But Yessongs was an immediate kick in the ears!
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Endless Wire
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Posted: September 25 2007 at 18:09 |
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My favorite album is Quadrophenia. I really liked it upon first listen, but after one or two additional listens I absolutely loved it.
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